. >> there are a lot of closings in anticipation of hurricane sandy. they are scrolling at the bottom of the screen all morning and on our website www.wbaltv.com. >> we have live team coverage of hurricane sandy as it moves up the atlantic coast. we will go to tony pann. >> a little bit of breaking news. it is getting stronger. last hour sustained winds 75 miles an hour. a plane went into it and discovered stained winds at 85 miles an hour so a category one but getting stronger. you see the bottom right ha-han corner the circulation. about 250 to 300 miles east-southeast of ocean city and moving north. so it won't come up the chesapeake bay and that is good news. we were concerned about that a couple of days ago but it looks like it will come onshore in new jersey. we could see heavy rain on the eastern shore counties right now with lighter rain in the with respect suburbs. at the airport you see winds are not terrible around baltimore. north wind eight up to about 20 miles an hour gusting. they will pick up this morning and this afternoon. the worse p